Charles Wilet's 1846 English Grammar Book with Drawings copper box incorporating wonderful little ink and

incorporating wonderful little ink and watercolor drawings of houses and rivers and lighthouses into diagrams applying plane trigonometry

Figures measure from 1 3/4" to 2 1/4" tall

Either its maker or someone later glued it to a slab of green-gray slate

This one was produced by the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop

Charles Wilet's 1846 English Grammar Book with Drawings copper box incorporating wonderful little ink andThe latest edition in my never ending pile of old school books I couldn't resist this one Murray's English Grammar Simplified by Allen Fish, published in 1846. While I at least could learn a lot about proper English from this one, of course it the legacy of its onetime owner Charles Wilet that makes me love it, whose name appears on numerous pages, including the first inside page along with a drawing of a star. Our Charles also transformed the